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What's under all that spray paint?

Tim Sullivan reports the city DPW placed these altered cardboard boxes all over Billings Field in West Roxbury for the Corrib 5K race today. Surely, somebody at the DPW didn't spend time spray painting out "Thomas M. Menino, Mayor" on lots of cardboard trash receptacles, right?

A better question would be, "After plastering his name just about everywhere else possible, surely Menino didn't have his name applied to city owned cardboard trash receptacles, did he?"

I'm glad Walsh not only obliterated Menino's name, but made it obvious enough to remind observers of Menino's wasteful spending to feed his massive ego. Extra credit for Walsh not sticking his own name on there. At least someone has integrity.

Didn't take very long working overtime on Memorial Day Monday to spray out those trash containers....

Seriously, I'm not sure what to think about this. When we had a department-head switch in our City department the new head could have ordered new letterhead with her name on it. Instead, she waited until we'd worked through the existing supply with the old name before making the change.

Perhaps the message is not sticking one's name over absolutely everything in the city!

The Mayoral stamping on name is a long tradition, and not just in Boston. The fact that Menino's name was still on these suggests they were bought in bulk, a good idea fiscally. Spray-painting them out was cheap. And if they hadn't, you all would be bitching about how they have the wrong name on them!